Computers Quote by Michael Pollan

“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it…

— Michael Pollan

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking…

— Michael Pollan

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

— Robert Shea

“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…

— Adam Smith

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being that we…

— Paul Romer

“Even in the richer countries, what happens at work can make people fulfilled, bored, valued or stressed. At the deepest level work shapes who…

— Ha-Joon Chang

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization…

— Michael Pollan